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One of the staples for fajita fillings in my book is a tasty salsa and since homemade salsas are always great and they are also fairly easy to make I set about making one. Tomatoes are not in season right now and the hothouse tomatoes are not all that flavourful but you can certainly enhance their flavour by roasting them in the oven. Roasting vegetables like this concentrates their flavour and tomatoes are particularly good when roasted. I figured that since I was roasting the tomatoes anyways I might as well roast the chili peppers as well. Once everything was all roasted up the only question remaining was how smooth or chunky do you want your salsa. If you like it smooth you can puree it in the food processor and if you like it on the chunkier side you can just dice everything be hand. One nice thing about a salsa like this is that you can make it a day ahead of time and lighten the load on a day that you make a meal that has a lot of components like fajitas.

Roasted Tomato Salsa

Servings: 2cups

ingredients

1 pound tomatoes (cut in half)

3 jalapenos

1 poblano chili

1/4 cup onion (diced)

1 clove garlic (chopped)

1 lime (juice)

1 handful cilantro (chopped)

salt and pepper to taste

directions

Place the tomatoes on a baking pan and roast in a preheated 350F/180C oven for an hour flipping half way through.

Let the tomatoes cool and dice them.

Broil the chilies until blackened on all sides.

Let the chilies cool in a sealed container, peel the skins from them, seed them and dice them.

I love this idea, especially since I like to can. I'm thinking it would be nice over the weekend to can some of this vibrant looking salsa - something I've never actually made from scratch. Thanks Kevin.

I make a similar salsa by roasting fresh tomatoes, peppers and garlic. I remove the peels and process them in a blender with fresh onion, garlic, a bunch of cilantro, a jar of red roasted bell peppers with a little of the vinegary liquid, a tsp or so of cumin and salt to taste. It is absolutely delicious and looks just like yours. Love your blog!!!

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